It’s September 16th, the first day of the fall semester at Ballet School NY, on East Thirty-first Street. The academy, which trains kids between the ages of four and seventeen, is housed in an old, somewhat dilapidated brick parish house. To reach the fifth-floor studio, …

Nothing compares with the distressing images of cars floating in the streets in New Jersey and the Rockaways, of babies carried out of darkened hospitals, or the apocalyptic scenes of frightened homeowners holed up in the bone-cold remnants of their houses. But, as the days pass…

By now it is well known that Jerome Robbins was a complicated, often unpleasant man, prone to demeaning rages and paralyzing complexes, but there’s no denying that the creator of such works as “Fancy Free,” “Dances at a Gathering,” and “Antique…

The stage of the Peter B. Lewis Theatre at the Guggenheim—where the “Works & Process” series is staged—is about as big as a placemat, and ballet dancers wince as they inevitably come close to flying offstage and crashing into the wings. The pit, which is shaped…

In times like these, ballet tickets may not be a top priority, especially if it means sitting in the nosebleed seats. An anonymous donor to the New York City Ballet—amazingly, some people still give money without plastering their names all over the place—has taken action…